Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Epson SC-P900 Support

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 12:56:50AM +0200, Marius Steffen wrote:
> I’ve just got a new Epson SC-P900 and noticed there’s no support in 
> Gutenprint for it - is there anything I can provide you with to add 
> support for it?

Looking at the specs for this thing, it claims to natively support 
AirPrint which implies IPP-Everywhere -- along with its builtin 
wired/wireless networking support, should JustWork(tm) with semi-modern 
Linux (and Mac) systems.

If that's not good enough, and you need Gutenprint's feature set, I'd 
expect getting the printer working will be straightforward (specs imply 
ESC/P2, 10 ink channels, 180 nozzles per), but in that ink set there's a 
new violet ink that would need to be added to gutenprint, and of course 
a decent amount of ink would need to be expended to tune the overall 
output until it's of sufficient quality.

There was a discussion about this printer back in October/November 2021, 
but I don't think anything meaningful came of it.  Supposedly the P800 
driver worked reasonably well, though it lacked the full ink set.

 - Solomon
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